Ruby on Rails Developers - All Experience Levels!
Location: GB, LND, London
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Industry: Computer Software

Company profile:
carwow is a comparison site that takes the uncertainty and hassle out of buying a new car. We’re passionate about getting people the best car buying experience, from research all the way through to purchase.A young, driven, energetic startup based in central London, carwow are backed by Europe’s leading VC’s including:Balderton Capital (Betfair, Bebo, Bookatable, Yoox)Episode 1 (Zoopla, LOVEFiLM, Shazam)Samos (Betfair, Kabbee, Ocado, BoF)We’ve raised over £1.3M in funding in the last year, with more on the way, so we’re growing fast!We believe buying a new car should be enjoyable. Through carwow consumers can quickly compare upfront offers from our trusted dealer network and buy directly without any hassle or haggling.If you want to help us change the future of car buying, get in touch - you definitely don’t need to be a petrolhead! It’s the chance to be at the start of something huge.

Job description:
We are for looking Rails Developers with all the typical skills (Ruby, SQL, Javascript, CSS, Linux, GIT and Test Driven Development). Rails experience is not essential if you have previous extensive experience in other web technologies, you learn fast and you've spent at least 1 year practicing core Ruby.Over the next year we are going to work on a variety of projects from internal reporting tools, to cutting edge user-facing car configurators. We live and breathe data so an interest in statistics, machine learning and data crunching would be beneficial.We obsess over user experience and product, so working closely with users in shaping our products should excite you.You should love delivering a great product to millions of people as much as you love technology, we expect you to be opinionated and actively shaping the culture and strategy of the product team.We also know there’s more to life than work. We are an extremely sociable team, we love eating out, playing table tennis, free friday beers, we have a study group, a book club and have hack weeks.If you are a passionate software engineer, and think you have the skills, drive and talent to help us to build up our team, we’d really like you to come join the teamAbout carwowcarwow is a comparison site for brand new cars, we're a young start-up aiming to change the way new cars are bought. Instead of having to haggle with salespeople, we allow consumers to compare offers from quality dealers and buy cars at an upfront no-hassle price.We raised a £1.3M seed round in early 2014 from leading London investors, VCs who were early backers of LoveFilm, Betfair, Zoopla, Shazam and many more industry leading online businesses.We’re still small though —which means you get to make a difference in a rapidly growing and already successful business.We get agile rightWe have been doing Agile by the book for several years, but most important of all we really focus on delivering value regularly. We use an hybrid of Kanban and XP, we pair communicate and pair often. Everything we work on is co-designed with developers, stakeholders and designers. We are aware of the tradeoffs we take and we invest in paying back our technical debt.We’re a lean startupWe like to deliver early and often. Good weeks see 2-3 daily deploys. That works because our team is small, focused, and autonomous on planning, architecture, and design. We try to use data and a scientific approach to decision whenever possible and we constantly test ways to improve our products.We love Ruby, Javascript, Git, TDD, and OSSAnd use a bunch of other technologies daily; Haml, Sass, Heroku, Javascript, AWS being the most usual suspects. We use the right tools for the job. We scale when scale is needed. We’re keen to learn and we have regular study groups (at the moment we are studying Data Science on coursera).We are a technology companyWe believe technology is one of our greatest assets and differentiates us from other competitors. We always look for innovative way to use data and technology. But we need more, and that’s where you come in: we believe it’s part of our job to get better by hiring the best.We’ll challenge youWe need you to be an engineer and a leader. Keep your hands dirty, show initiative, motivate people, and get projects done. While keeping the big picture in mind. Sounds hard? We’re constantly adding or rebuilding features in a site that sees monthly 20% increases in traffic. Oh, and we’re going service oriented. We need top-notch performance. We have tricky geek problems around geo, machine learning, analytics, syncing, emails, monitoring, testing…

Requirements:
We expect:At least 3 years of web development experienceGood communication skillsGood understanding of object oriented programming principlesBeneficialA nice fat degree in Computer Science, Maths, or something similarExperience in a variety of programming languages

Benefits:
We are offering a very competitive salary and generous equity options which means you will own a piece of the pieAll that with the usual startup perks—nice office in Central London, brand new Macbook, unlimited freshly ground coffee, and table tennis.